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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?
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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (8294)6/4/1998 10:08:00 PM
From: mozek  Read Replies (2) of 74651
 
Cheryl,

Thanks for the news. I did a little checking and found some information that might surprise you. My source was the Transaction Processing Performance Council, a 3rd party industry organization located at tpc.org on the web.

You said: I've got news for you, SUNW's low-end servers and workstations are now competitively priced with high-end PC's running NT.

SUNW Enterprise 450 servers, which are competitively priced w/high-end CPQ 8-way multiprocessor PCs still outperform them by a factor of 2-to-1.

Interestingly, a Compaq 200mhz 4-way Proliant 5500 server running Microsoft SQL server (I know it's not the fastest database yet :-) ran slightly faster in absolute terms than a Sun Enterprise 450. The TPC-C throughput for the Compaq was 11748. The Sun throughput was 11559. Since you say that a Compaq 8-way is half as fast as a Sun 450, are you saying that adding 4 more processors slows things down? I suppose I'd just use 4 then.

Another interesting fact is that the price/performance ratio for the Compaq is $26.61 while the Sun (which was the cheapest in Sun's lineup) comes out to $56.60, making Sun's least expensive offering more than twice as expensive as Compaq's. From there, Sun's prices range up to the $200+ level. It seems that Sun's highest performance offering tested in absolute terms, the Ultra 6000, barely edges out Compaq's Tandem Server Cluster running NT at a substantially higher price.

Here's a summary of all the tests:
tpc.org

Here's the Sun 450:
tpc.org

Here's the Compaq 4-CPU Proliant 5500:
tpc.org

You can look up the others as you like.

Thanks,
Mike
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